Deep-Dive Report: Mohammed Dewji — The Turnaround Machine
East Africa’s only billionaire built a roughly $2.1 billion fortune buying what others had given up on — and fixing it. Inside the METL playbook, the man, and the ordeal that tested both.
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Wealth Intelligence: Mike Adenuga — The Quiet Colossus
Nigeria’s most private billionaire built a fortune of roughly $6.5 billion on telecoms and oil — and tells almost no one how. A full read of an empire that hides in plain sight.
The Inside Story: The $39 Billion Question
A decade in the making and only now running at full capacity, the world’s most ambitious refinery had never carried a market price. In ten days this month, it finally did — and the demand suggests the number is a floor.
Deep-Dive Report: Naguib Sawiris – The Safe-Haven Pivot
The eldest Sawiris turned a telecom windfall into a gold-and-property empire built for turbulent times — and his net worth now depends on which index you read. Inside the holdings, the strategy, and the range.
Wealth Intelligence: Patrice Motsepe – The $700 Million Reversal
A gold correction stripped $700 million from South Africa’s richest Black industrialist in three months. The episode is a window into a fortune built on mining beta — and the quieter machine built to offset it.
Deep-Dive Report: Tony Elumelu — The Crown Jewel
A banker turned energy consolidator is building a self-reinforcing African conglomerate — and his move on Seplat is the most consequential yet. Inside the architecture, the catalyst, and why we decline to put a net-worth figure on him.
Wealth Intelligence: Jim Ovia — The $643 Million Pivot
The founder of Nigeria’s most profitable bank has left its chairmanship — and is pouring his conviction into the Lagos skyline. A full read of where the fortune sits, and where it’s moving.
The Inside Story: The Bridge Between Friends
How a near-two-decade friendship between South Africa’s richest man and Rurik Göbel collapsed over a R2.3 billion Stellenbosch land deal.
Deep-Dive Report: Johann Rupert — Beyond Cartier
The three-vehicle architecture behind South Africa’s largest fortune — and why the Richemont headline understates it.
Wealth Intelligence: Aliko Dangote — The $40 Billion Climb
Anatomy of a $6.8 billion year — and the refinery, cement and listings that could carry Africa’s richest man past $40 billion.
Wealth Intelligence: Othman Benjelloun — The Succession Question
At 93, Othman Benjelloun still holds both the chairman and chief-executive titles at Bank of Africa, still chairs the strategy committee, and by all accounts intends to keep going.
The Inside Story: The $100 Million Handshake
On May 20, two men who have been friends for 25 years stood on the same refinery jetty. One is preparing to sell a slice of the future. The other is buying in.
Executive Insight: Five Moves That Matter on the Continent
A cross-continent read on the capital decisions reshaping African wealth this week.
Wealth Intelligence: The $50 Billion Question at the Dangote Refinery
Inside the Dangote Refinery listing and what a public valuation does to Africa’s largest private fortune.
Wealth Intelligence: The Motsepe Architecture — How a Mining Fortune Became a Diversified Pan-African Capital Platform
A wealth-architecture profile of Patrice Motsepe, whose $4.3 billion fortune now spans diversified mining, gold, digital banking, renewable energy, and a presence on the share register of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.
Executive Insight: The State Versus the Refinery — What NNPC's Court Filing Reveals About the Dangote IPO Risk
The refinery has already displaced the majority of Nigeria's fuel imports on volume. The NNPC's argument is therefore not primarily about supply adequacy, the refinery is demonstrably supplying the bulk of national demand, but about price.